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Sunday, May 14, 2006

A Perfect Pair

Posted by on May 14 at 18:45 PM

We all know what a thick-headed jackass George W. Bush is, and by extension most of us probably assume his wife isn’t the brightest light in the … thing with lights … either. She has to be pretty delusional to be married to that guy.

Well here’s some recent proof:

U.S. First lady Laura Bush said on Sunday she does not believe opinion polls showing her husband’s approval ratings at record low levels.

Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Laura Bush said she did not think people were losing confidence in President George W. Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years.

“I don’t really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me,” she said.

“As I travel around the United States, I see a lot of appreciation for him. A lot of people come up to me and say, ‘Stay the course’.

This woman is so amazingly dense that she thinks that the people who come to see her husband’s appearances are a representative sample of the population. It’s a random sampling of ordinary Americans, just happening by a $10,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser. She’s taken her own informal poll of people who love George Bush, and, why, they overwhelmingly love him! The polls in the papers are crazy!

Nearly every day I think my capacity to be stunned by Bush and his gang’s (and his family’s) unprecedented combination of evil and stupidity is at its limit, and nearly every day I’m yet more stunned. Maybe she’s not really this stupid—maybe she’s just saying what she’s told to say—but I prefer to think she’s an unbelievable dolt. It just fits.


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Reality does have a liberal bias, after all.

No doubt she was grilled rigorously on "fair and balanced" Fox News. (I did not watch. My TV is not sturdy enough to withstand the heavy objects hurled at the screen that would result.)

"Stay the course" is such an obviously scripted republican talking point. This indicates she is not a mindless dolt, but merely a Bush puppet, dutifully regurgitating her lines on Fox, the republican network.

I think it was the anti-depressants talking.

Babs Bush is equally stupid and evil. Obviously, W wanted someone just like mom.

Well we are talking about a person who, I will assume, doesn't believe in science (i.e. evolution) but does believe we were created by God because a pastor says so.

My beliefs are just as valid as your evidence.

that or it just depends on who is doing the interview; on ABC's "This Week" she acknowledge the polls but blamed it on a difficult year and "the media".

Reuters reports that depending on which network she's talking to, Laura Bush has different views on opinion polls.

Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Laura Bush said she did not think people were losing confidence in President George W. Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years.

'I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me,' she said."

But on ABC's "This Week," she acknowledged that her husband's popularity was suffering, but blamed it on the country having been through a difficult year -- and the media.

"Mrs. Bush complained that when her husband's popularity was high, newspapers did not put that on the front page. Now it was low, they took great delight in highlighting the fact.

"Asked if she thought the media had been unfair, Mrs. Bush said: 'No, I don't think it's necessarily unfair. I think it's just, you know, I think they may be enjoying this a little bit.'
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Stupid first lady. Your approval rating is SUPPOSED to be high: that's why they don't publicize it when it is. That's like Garbage Men Empty Dumpsters, Film at 11.

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